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11 s. Of this Inner Coatit is very obfervable, That allthough 
when the Seed is grown old and dry, ‘tis fhrunk up, and in moft Seeds, 
fo far, as Farcely to be difcern'd5 yet in its firft and juvenile Conftitu- 
tion, it is a very Spongy and Sappy body 5 and is then likewife (as the 
Womb in a Pregnant Animal ) in proportion, very thick and bulky. 
In a Bean, even as one of the Lobes it felf> And ina Plu: or Apricot, 
Ithink I may fafely fay; halfan hundred times thicker than afterwards, 
when it is dried and: (hrunk up, and can fcarcely be diftinguithed 
from the upper Coat. Upon which Accounts it is, in this eftate a true 
and fair Parenchyma.. The Delinéation hereof, See in the res be- 
longing to the Fourth Bart of the-Fourth Book. 
12. $. In this Inner Costin a Bean, the Lignows Body or Seed- 
Branch is diftributed : Sometimes, as in French-Beans, throughout the 
whole Coat, as it isin a Leaf. In the Great Garden-Bean,upon its firft 
entrance, it is bipartite, and fo in fmall Branches runs along the Circum- 
ference of the Coat, all meeting and making akind of Reticulation againft 
mous the Belly of the Bear. In the fame manner the main Branches in the 
made outer Coat of a Kerzel, circling ‚themfelves on both hands from the 
SE) place of their firft entrance, at lalt:meet, and mutually inofeulate 5 
as the Veins in the Kidveys of a Man of any Quadrupedes Or the Carotick 
Arteries in the Braine. 
13. §. So that all the Parts ofa Vegetable, the Root, Trunk, Branch, 
Leaf, Flower, Fruit and Seed, are {till made up of Two Subftantially 
different Bodies. » 
14, $. Andas every Part hath Tipo, fo the whole Vegetable taken 
together, is a compofition of Tmo:only,'and no more: All properly 
‘oody Parts, Strings and. Fibers, are One Body : All fimple Barques, 
ruar Piths, Parenchyma’s and Pulps, and asto their fubltantial Nature, Pills 
reak and Skins likewife, all but One Body z the feveral Parts of a Vegetable 
mer, all differing from each other , only by the various Proportions and 
En Mixtures, and variated Pores and structure of thefe Two Bodies. What 
from thefe two general Obfervations might reafonably be inferrd, E 
fhall not now mention. 
15. $. The Fourth or Innermolt Cover we may call the Secon- 
dine. The fight of which,by cutting off the Coats of an Infant-Bean,at 
the Cone thereof, in, very thin Slices, and with great Caution, may 
beobtain’d. While unbroken, tis tranfparent 5 being torn and taken 
off, it gathers up into the likenef ofa Jelly, or that we call the Tredle 
of an Egg, when rear-boyl'd.: This Membrance in large 
Beans, is not to be found diftinét. But Cas far as our Enquirie 
cover) it may in moft other Seeds;even full grown,be diftin&tly feen; as 
in thofe of Cucumber, Colocynthis, Burdock , Cartharaunt,Gromvel, Endive, 
Mallows, &c. “Tis ufually fo very thin, as in the above-nam’d, as Tab, +f16 
very difficultly to be difcover'd..\ But infome Kernels, as of Apricots, 
tis very thick ; and moft remarquably fuch, in fome other Seeds. That 
all thefe have the Analogy of one and the fame Cover, which I call the 
Secondine, is molt probably argu’d from their alike Natures; being all 
ofthem plain fimple Membranes, with not the lealt Fibre of the Lig- 
nous Body or Seed Branch, vifibly diftributed in them : As alfo from their 
Texture, which isin all of them more clofe, See this Part ia Tub, 4. As 
ae perl the Figures belonging tothe Fourth Part of the Fourth 
ook. 
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